[ Kazuya's fury paradoxically silences the voice in his head. The dark core of his hatred swells. ]

I won't deny that revenge is stupid, or that it doesn't make sense. But sometimes there's nothing left, for a person, except revenge. Some things you just can't get over, whether it's decades or thousands of years. To let "bygones be bygones"... that's like saying that it was okay, what happened. That you're fine with it. That you're fine with the things that are still happening.

[ His voice had started out measured, his face calm, but now he's shaking. His fists are clenched. ]

As for hurting innocents... no one is innocent, if they're content to mindlessly go along with the status quo.

[ He pushes back from the table. ]

Well, I'm sorry you had to get your hands dirty and have your sense of decency offended. But most of the time you have to break things before you can fix them. Somebody has to take that on.

[ He knows... he knows that his situation and Kazuya's are likely very different. That Naoya might have been motivated by nothing more than blind hatred, like Gilliam. But Kazuya's account of things has struck a nerve, and he can't really control himself. ]

Somebody has to be the bad guy.